Tippy-toes, toppy-toes, sneaking up on Poketoes

My name is Adam. I'm from Central Texas. Nonbinary, they/them. 18+ followers only.

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You could not pay me enough to watch arlos new video about Mario Kart World. What could possibly take 28 minutes to talk about that hasn't already been said in the past year.

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Idk why twitter has set my algorithm to think I want to hear about dating app discourse but one thing I've learned from being exposed to it is that, yes, you are absolutely being judged for your appearance all the time, everyone is constantly making broad assumptions about you based on how you look and how you maintain that appearance. Being ugly is a red flag not just in the dating world but in general. If you've ever thought people just pass by you without really judging you or even thinking about you, think again, because they almost certainly are lol.

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The horny reaction to Ingrid Street Fighter is a psyop by Capcom, no way y'all actually think this baby faced meme generator is that attractive.

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You go to overwatch twitter just to see people apparently hate every hero, every map, every ability, every weapon, every perk, every ultimate, every update, every cosmetic, and they're all about to kill themselves if they don't bitch about it everyday.

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Maybe I just grew up not being such a hater but there's no way millennials thought so negatively of gen x the way gen z thinks of millennials. The way gen z posts about millennials you'd think we willingly caused the housing market crisis ourselves. I don't think any millennial growing up gave a shit about gen x or what they did, but regularly you can find a gen z person ranting off about some grudge they carry against millennials. Where is this really coming from.

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Like I don't want to contribute to this cross generation culture war bullshit but I really do feel, like, guilty by association I guess lol. Like what did we do as a generation to earn so much disrespect from people only ~10 years younger than us? The reason millennials have issues with baby boomers, for example, is because boomers have political power, and decisions boomers made about the economy set up future generations to fail steadily. It's why I don't think most millennials give a shit about gen x because gen x is not usually our bosses or parents or school teachers -- they did not have influence over us. Yet there are so many zoomers that claim millennials fucked things up for them, which is not only hard to take seriously when millennials are only now hitting their 30s and getting into positions of any influence, but millennials infamously had the ladder pulled up on us, we didn't get the opportunities to move upward socially in our 20s. Like why are we playing stupid and pretending millennials haven't had their adulthoods outright fucked these last 10 years by a Trump presidency and a fascist updraft? The same shit that's fucking over gen z -- why are we fighting each other when we're practically brothers going through the same shit together??

And you know I guess I just feel bad knowing this generational attitude is bound to only get worse. In a couple years gen z is gonna have to contend with gen alpha doing the same shit to them. And I just wish it would stop. Genuinely a hallmark trait of millennials, imo, was that we were really committed to stopping generational trauma and trends; so many times we told ourselves we wouldn't become bitter like boomers, that we would enable younger generations, that we would make sure they grow up in a less bigoted society. It doesn't quite feel like that attitude carried over onto gen z.

And you can really tell somethings off when you get gen z to talk about "millennial feminism." Lol. It's just really tragic how there's been this generational backslide regarding women and women's rights, to the point that being sex positive will quickly get you labeled as cringe. Gen z really does resent millennial feminism for trying to push sex positivity and liberation, and I can't help but think it's because that kind of politics doesn't offer immediate gratification; they see a fascist world and resent that they were raised to be incompatible with it, that I think some of them really do wish they had been raised more sexist, more bigoted, just so they wouldn't have to care about it.

Add a pinch of literary crisis to this whole situation and a splash of being chronically online and you've got a recipe for a really sour generation -- a generation that's currently becoming the next adults of the world. Idk. I can just see how that alt right pipeline of the 2010s is paying off very well.

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Maybe I just grew up not being such a hater but there's no way millennials thought so negatively of gen x the way gen z thinks of millennials. The way gen z posts about millennials you'd think we willingly caused the housing market crisis ourselves. I don't think any millennial growing up gave a shit about gen x or what they did, but regularly you can find a gen z person ranting off about some grudge they carry against millennials. Where is this really coming from.

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new friends 😊

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It's crazy how a couple negative tweets can disrupt a whole movie's reception, you'd think Swapped is this lifeless direct-to-dvd knockoff of Hoppers based on how ppl online talk about it.

I don't want to overhype this film because it's really a solid 7/10 but I feel compelled to recommend it since the perception right now has been so mean. It's been accused of using ai when there is no evidence of that, it's been criticized for having stiff camera work because of exactly one admittedly rough conversational scene, its character designs get dismissed so quickly. It's all just... very mean lol. So much judgement from folks who aren't even giving it a chance, and just so they can look like an internet asshole.

Worst part is that the best quality of the film is hard to talk about without spoiling it. Which sucks because lots of ppl have just been openly sharing clips of this twist in an effort to defend it. So I just want to stress here that if you haven't watched it yet, give it a chance before someone spoils it for you. Again, it's not some masterpiece film that will change your life but it's certainly a cut above your average kids movie for whatever that's worth.

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I liked Weapons but not as much as I was hoping to like it. It's alright. I found myself laughing way more than being spooked but I'm starting to think that's what horror movies do to me. And I guess it's more of a suspense/thriller than a horror film? I'm not always sure what the difference between these things is.

Spoilers next.

I think things started declining generally around the point the villain/monster is revealed. Suddenly the mystery just became an "oh, ok" situation. Obv that was gonna happen when the premise hinges on "what happened to all these kids," at some point it's gonna be answered more or less. Just found the old lady to be lame and the half-clown thing going on didnt help. I feel like there's a layer of this character sort of missing, or maybe I'm missing out on something, because the plot does feel a little stupid starting from this point. I don't want to nitpick every oddity like it's a plot hole, but damn the old lady really screwed up by not keeping that one kid at home that next day. Like that very much put a whole target on her back by making the kid and his family by extension super suspicious. Stuff like this ripped enough holes in the story for me that I felt underwhelmed by the ending.

I also don't think it juggled any of the supporting plots very well either, the touch that each characters perception of events is slightly different is cute but I can't tell if it really added anything to the film. Weirdly there was more drama/emphasis on the affair Justine was involved in than there was about Janice's friction with the town/people thinking she was responsible for the missing kids. Feels like that whole aspect of the story gets sidelined to make time and space for the cop and the drug addict to have a bunch of pointless interactions.

Idk I don't want to sound so sour but some of these decisions are definitely um "artsy" at best and just kind of distracted storytelling at worse.

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A gigantic punchline amidst the Pragmata discourse is that the same people praising the game for encouraging people to have kids are generally the same people who vehemently deny that fiction can ever have an effect on reality.

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"calling trump a rapist pedophile traitor is radicalizing people!!!" well yeah that sounds like a pretty legitimate reason to be radicalized

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Mario Galaxy movie successfully recognizes that conventional film scripting wouldn't work for a Mario setting and so there's more focus on the elements that can be done right. Say what you will about "reference slop" but I definitely get more joy out of looking at Rob or hearing a Mario Maker joke than I would if we got, like, an emotional arc about Toad feeling inadequate or lore exposition about why Birdo spits eggs. In fact the few times the film does focus on emotions, it's this clunky plotline about Bowser and Jr's relationship, where the usual father-son dynamics are weirdly flipped w/ Jr being the negative influence over Bowser.

There's also a lot more "Mario Bros action sequences" that the first movie only had a few of. These are always so fucking cool to me, the choreography is so exciting and bouncy and it's great seeing power-ups used so creatively in combat. For as fast paced as the Galaxy movie is, these sequences are perfectly paced. These moments are most when I feel like I'm really watching a Mario movie.

All that being said somehow I still kinda prefer the first movie. Galaxy is a great sequel and has a better focus on what it can do best, but there's something awkwardly charming about the first film and the discovery of everything transitioning from video game logic to movie logic. Certainly the finale was way better in the first movie and generally had a more well rounded arc from start to finish, whereas the Galaxy movie has a more "slip'n'slide" depth to it. The former is slightly more compelling, the latter is just straightforwardly more fun. Both are good.

Disappointed Fox didn't have a line where he goes "Great, now here we are on some Dinosaur Planet, having Adventures."

Really really disappointed that Wart doesn't even get a name drop. His persona in the movie was unexpectedly perfect, it's a shame he plays such a minor part.

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"The tricks and shortcuts in Mario Kart World widen the skill gap between players too much" do people not know that the tricks and shortcuts are not especially difficult to pull off. Like they're not easy but it's mostly just memorization. And you don't have to take the most tricky complicated shortcuts either, you can find / make smaller shortcuts if you just engage with the trick system a little bit and know where to look for them.

Do people know they can improve at playing video games.

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Early footage of ‘Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time’ on the Nintendo 64.

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I know Peach was expecting a hug and all but it was pretty rude of her to just ignore the handshake completely. And real huggers would have pulled Mario in by the wrist anyway.

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Internet is gonna go crazy when they finally announce Star Fox: Titans.

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Top: illustration in a 2003 issue of the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine, reimagining one of the murals from the intro to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with Mario characters instead, swapping Link for Mario, Epona for Yoshi, Ganon for Bowser and the Hylians for Toads as well as Hyrule Castle for Peach's Castle and the Triforce of Courage for a Power Star.

Bottom: the original mural as extracted from the game's files, for reference.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: ND (Japan), Issue 85, 2003